Casa degli artisti, Art residence in Brera district, Milan, Italy.
Casa degli Artisti is a multi-story palazzo that now functions as an art center near Corso Garibaldi. The building houses working studios for artists, exhibition spaces, a small bistro, and outdoor garden areas.
Casa degli Artisti was built in 1909 on the initiative of the Bogani family to house studios for set designers, sculptors, painters and photographers. At the end of the 1930s the Comune di Milano expropriated it for a redevelopment of the adjoining houses and the Brera district, but the Second World War halted the works and the project was shelved. In 1978 Luciano Fabro, Hidetoshi Nagasawa and the art historian Jole De Sanna gave the house a new cultural push, and in 1994 it obtained the restoration of Giorgio De Chirico's I bagni misteriosi, now held at the Museo del Novecento.
The name dates to the 1978 relaunch led by Luciano Fabro, Hidetoshi Nagasawa and art historian Jole De Sanna, who made the house an incubator for young research. In 1994 the group won the restoration of Giorgio De Chirico's I bagni misteriosi, now at the Museo del Novecento. Since 2020 the building is run by an ATS of five non-profits, including ZONA K and That's Contemporary.
The entrance is at Via Tommaso da Cazzaniga 5, off Corso Garibaldi 89/A, in the Brera area. The restored building covers 1,250 m² over three floors, with a ground-floor exhibition space open to the public, a bistro and an outdoor area facing the garden dedicated to Pippa Bacca.
The building preserves original brickwork and concrete structures from its founding era, carefully maintained during a comprehensive restoration in 2015. This makes it a rare example of authentic early-20th-century artist architecture in Milan.
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